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In the first instance it was the Independents sans Wilkie that killed it. Also if it wouldn't work then clubs Australia have nothing to worry about. Finally the public service inquiry into problem gambling recommended it, not Andrew Wilkie or Nick Xenophon.

Again, none of this is evidence of anything except that Huntsman can't win this time and that he hopes Romney can't win. It doesn't demonstrate that Romney is unlikely to win. You're right in so far as Obama need only convince swinging voters they don't need to change but Obama conjures...

Oh god you're one of those conviction politician types. Think Howard was successful because he stood up for what he believed in blah blah blah. To begin with I did read it and the reasons you had provided as evidence that Huntsman viewed the election as unwinnable were not that, all his...

None of this therefore indicates Huntsman doesn't think the Republican Party can win merely that Huntsman himself can't. I'll ask you what I asked garygaz, do you think Obama is a strong candidate? If so why?

Re: The Official Cricket Thread Manoj, Saurabh is a solid player but he isn't shattering records or anything.

Re: The Official Cricket Thread Wonderkid Tiwary in the one day side, will watch with interest.

Do you think Obama himself is a strong candidate? 2008 he benefited heavily among other things from the Palin catastrophe and the Bush legacy, presumably the former wont be an issue while the latter will be a much smaller one this year. There also seem to be fairly high dissatisfaction levels...

Because candidates polling below 10% are dropping out?

Was a sufficiently interesting and well written movie, pretty nasty the way they portrayed Thatcher, I imagine her life is currently hard enough already without a movie throwing her declining mental state back in her face but from an artistic point of you it was fine. Edit: FTR my avatar is not...

Re: The Official Cricket Thread Dravid's reflexes are going I think, you'll also notice he's dropping more catches at slip where he once was described as the greatest slips fieldsman in the world. On subcontinent pitches and even good true hard wickets he is still formidable but on faster...

Well yeah mate I mean if you can't own a Yo-yo ball then the terrorists have won.

Re: The Official Cricket Thread Laxman never could run, he's always been pretty ill disciplined, he was next on Chappell's hitlist after Chappell sacked Ganguly but then the BCCI sacked Chappell first. The point is I was defending in particular Dravid but also Tendulkar, saying they haven't...

I think as a senator he was considerably more liberal than he has been as a President and I think a lot of that has to do with political pragmatism and that with the issue of re-election being neutralized by the twenty second amendment. I could be wrong, one of his daughters might get killed by...

Re: The Official Cricket Thread Nah he's the chief culprit. He doesn't care about test cricket, he's more interest in the versions of the game that will make him more money so he jam packed his schedule with them, then demands that he gets some time off so you get situations like this series...

Female intuition.

Re: The Official Cricket Thread Yeah but that's IPL

Re: The Official Cricket Thread What's wrong with Karthik and Patel?

I do think neocons are the only Republicans likely to occupy the Whitehouse in my life time. I suspect we'll see a more liberal Obama if he wins a second term which seems unlikely if Romney storms the primaries like he has been doing.

Share the joke Sylvy?

Re: The Official Cricket Thread It does nothing for the future, you learn nothing from putting away rubbish. The best possible series would have been a hard fought series full of tight, persistant bowling from Zaheer and Ishant and strong disciplined batting from Sachin and Dravid where...